Shane MacGowan once said ... And, along with the teeth, were the endless stories of the drinking. In one biography, written by his wife, Victoria, there was a description of why travelling ...

The late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan made a fortune thanks to his ... stating he had his first drink at just five years old. Born in 1957, when the singer was just 17 he spent months in a ...

I wasn’t old enough to drink and ... on making MacGowan appear terribly unhandsome. Because the entire frame of the opening shots was focused on Shane’s unfortunate teeth.

Impossibly talented songwriter Shane MacGowan has died at age ... It was that lifestyle that would eventually catch up with MacGowan, whose love of drinking started in childhood.